Category: Websites

  • Foodborne Chicago

    Here’s an article about the product: One Year After Launch, Foodborne Chicago Continues to Enhance Food SafetyCity’s online food reporting app turns one Foodborne Chicago identifies public tweets from residents and visitors about food poisoning, then replies privately, providing assistance for the individual to file an online complaint through 311. An alert is then sent automatically…

  • Expunge.io

    Today I helped launch a website called Expuge.io. Here’s a snip from the launch blog post at Smart Chicago: The site, which helps start the process of erasing juvenile arrests and/or court records, is pretty much why we exist. For us, it grew naturally out of work we did over our CivicSummer, interacting with youth on…

  • News story: Finding ‘real people’ to test civic apps

    Here’s a story about the CUTGroup in today’s Chicago Tribune. Harris: Finding ‘real people’ to test civic apps July 7. 2013 Daniel O’Neil of the Smart Chicago Collaborative aims to engage city residents in the process of building civic-minded technology Daniel O’Neil is one of the founders of Everyblock. The now shuttered hyperlocal news website was…

  • Launch: Early Childhood Portal for City of Chicago

    Today marked the launch of ChicagoEarlyLearning.org, Here’s some snips from the press release from the Mayor’s Office: As part of the his administration’s focus on increasing access to quality early learning programs for children across the city and emphasis on helping parents get and stay involved in their children’s education, Mayor Rahm Emanuel today launched…

  • LAUNCH: New Web Site for US Senate Candidate David Hoffman

    Today I launched a new Web site for US Senate candidate David Hoffman. Here’s the blog post I wrote for the launch: October 27, 2009 Tour Our New Web Site Today we launched our new campaign Web site. Here’s a look at the features and content. Most importantly, we’d like invite you to contribute to…

  • Launch: Demolition Hold List

    Today I put a new thing on the Internet: Demolition Hold List, Chicago, IL: A place for info about architecturally significant buildings in danger of being demolished (or are already gone). Please take a look at all of the great buildings and, if you can, contribute photos, text, and memories of the buildings listed there. I…

  • It’s Your Serve for all your process serving needs It’s Your Serve is the best process server agency in Chicago. More: It’s Your Serve is Chicago’s premier rush process and clerking service. Chicago’s prominent law firms choose It’s Your Serve because of our experienced detectives, skip tracers, clerks, and specialized process servers. Call (312) 855-0303…

  • Bullet Group Web 2.0 Weblog

    Bullet Group Web 2.0 Weblog, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Created this simple, content-rich site to explain Web 2.0 technologies and show why they’re important to business.

  • Website: Open Source Homeland

    Website: Open Source Homeland

    Today I launched a website called Open Source Homeland. Here’s the about page: This site highlights the people and tools that support the idea of Open Source Homeland— that regular citizens can play key roles in what are traditionally considered government responsibilities— disaster recovery, national security, and emergency preparedness. Here are some recent examples: Craigslist…

  • Website: Case Study on a Parish Weblog

    I maintain the parish website at http://parish.queenofangelschicago.org/. Here’s a summary of the website strategy & structure, some stats on the site, and some thinking for the future. Underlying strategy The site launched in the Spring of 2004 after a few months of planning and development There were a couple of main impetuses for the site– one…